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Re: SSL/TLS instead of SSL in docs

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Cc: PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>, Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Date: 2022-03-25T19:58:02Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 8:47 AM Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> wrote:
> Since the approach taken wasn't to anyones liking, attached is a v4 (partly
> extracted from the previous patch) which only adds notes that SSL is used
> interchangeably with TLS in our documentation and configuration.

I have actually been wondering why we have been insisting on calling
it SSL when it clearly is not. However, if we're not ready/willing to
make a bigger change, then doing as you have proposed here seems fine
to me.

-- 
Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

Commits

  1. doc: Clarify when SSL actually means TLS

  2. doc: Add acronyms for MITM and SNI

  3. doc: Apply markup <productname> to OpenSSL more consistently

  4. Introduce --with-ssl={openssl} as a configure option